Between a rock and a hard place: the shaping of employment in a global economy

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Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism , Cambridge: Polity Press
Friedman, M. & R. H. Rosenman (1974) Type A Behaviour , New York: Alfred A. Knopf
Greenan, N., E. Kalugina & E. Walkowiak (2007) ‘European Working Conditions Survey’, Biirindelli et al. (eds) The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe , Report from the WORKS project, Leuven: HIVA
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Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? the destruction of occupational identities in the knowledge-based economy’, Monthly Review , Vol 57, No 8 January
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Weiss, A. (2007) ‘Global forces and national institutions: the shaping of call centre employment in Colombia’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation ,Vol 1 no 2:131–154

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[1] Amable, B. (2003) The Diversity of Modern Capitalism , Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press

[2] Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era , Cambridge: Polity Press

[3] Coates, D. (2002) Models of Capitalism: debating strengths and weaknesses , Volume 1, Cheltenham & Camberley: Edward Elgar

[4] Cox, R. (1992) ‘Global Perestroika’ in R. Miliband & L. Panitch (eds) New World Order? Socialist Register , Merlin Press

[5] Crouch, C. & H. Farrell (2002) Breaking the Path of Institutional Development? Alternatives to the New Determinism . MPIfG Discussion Paper 02/5. Cologne: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

[6] Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism , Cambridge: Polity Press

[7] Friedman, M. & R. H. Rosenman (1974) Type A Behaviour , New York: Alfred A. Knopf

[8] Greenan, N., E. Kalugina & E. Walkowiak (2007) ‘European Working Conditions Survey’, Biirindelli et al. (eds) The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe , Report from the WORKS project, Leuven: HIVA

[9] Hall, P.A. & D. Soskice (2001), Varieties of Capitalism , Oxford: Oxford University Press

[10] Hutton, W. (2002) The World We're In , London: Little Brown

[11] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat , New York: Monthly Review Press

[12] Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? the destruction of occupational identities in the knowledge-based economy’, Monthly Review , Vol 57, No 8 January

[13] Huws, U. (2010) ‘New forms of work; new occupational identities’, N. Pupo and M Thomas (eds) Interrogating the ‘New Economy’: Restructuring Work in the 21^st Century' , Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press

[14] Lehndorff et al. (2007) Dynamics of National Employment Models , Final Report of the Dynamo Project, Duisberg-Essen: IAQ, Accessed on March 2, 2010 from http://www.dynamoproject.eu/papers/dynamo_final_report_1-synth_end.pdf

[15] Mercer, J. (1954) ‘Something's Gotta Give’, available in R. Kimball, B. Day, M. Kreuger & E. Davis (eds) (2009) Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer , New York: Random House

[16] Ohmae, K. (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked World Economy , London: HarperCollins

[17] Panitch, L. (2004), ‘Globalization and the State’, L. Panitch, C. Leys, A. Zuege & M. Konings (eds) The Globalization Decade , London: Merlin:9–43

[18] Weiss, A. (2007) ‘Global forces and national institutions: the shaping of call centre employment in Colombia’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation ,Vol 1 no 2:131–154